The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold
manner: as the history of the men who created the field of study, or as the history of the …

I have elected to address the issue of tectonic form for a number of reasons, not least of
which is the current tendency to reduce architecture to scenography. This reaction arises in …

Peter Bürger reflects on the reception of his Theory of the Avant-Garde and crafts a spirited
response to his critics, while expanding on and refining his original claims. For Bürger, what …

El tratado de Ledoux no ofrece una estructura convencional sobre temas habituales de la
tratadística, sino que proyecta sobre el futuro, sobre una idea de ciudad ideal, toda una …

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes
ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei …

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists
and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it …

Abstract 9/11 and its aftermath was to have a dramatic impact on the visual arts and the
artistic response to the War on Terror. This study surveys the evolution of these responses …

This open access book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast,
publicly financed program for the construction of new schools and the reorganization of …

Readers expecting a traditional philosophical work will be surprised and delighted by David
Walsh's Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, his highly original reflection on the …

This chapter is both appreciative and critical of Norberg-Schulz's theory of phenomenology
applied to architecture. Massimo Cacciari denounced Norberg-Schulz's writings for …